Rhynchostylis gigantea alba

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Not the best flowering this year--probably thanks to me transplanting it to a new pot last summer--but there were still two spikes produced. Flowers are highly fragrant, even a bit too much if you stick your nose very close to the blooms (there are probably other reasons to enjoy the scent from a distance, as I decided this afternoon after I nearly inhaled a fuzzy little jumping spider that was resting within the cluster of flowers). Even though this particular plant is a robust (albeit slow) grower, it's never produced the pendant "foxtail" spikes that I've seen on other plants. I may try to transfer it to a wooden slat basket after it's finished blooming to see if that might encourage it to bloom more profusely next winter.